[Wikidata] site link vs. sitelink

2015-06-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, There's a bikeshed about how site link should be spelled: with or without space. Currently almost all messages in the Wikibase software say sitelink, and so does the Wikidata glossary [1] A counter-argument is that site link is a better English expression that doesn't create an unnecessary

Re: [Wikidata] site link vs. sitelink

2015-06-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
:) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-06-30 12:07 GMT+03:00 Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org: Il 30/06/2015 10:36, Amir E. Aharoni ha scritto: Hi, There's a bikeshed

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Birthday: Article Placeholder

2015-10-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Congratulations! I'd love to see it on translatewiki.net ASAP, but at the moment its i18n/*.json files are not quite ready ;) Please let me know if you need any assistance making them completely useful and translatable. I'll be happy to help. I'm very excited about this project since Lyida

Re: [Wikidata] Deployment date for the ArticlePlaceholder extension

2016-04-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
... And another thing to translate is the extension's user interface. See here: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats=D=ext-articleplaceholder Just 17 strings :) (You'll need a translatewiki.net account, if you don't have one already.) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni ·

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Where are the names of those units translated at the moment? If these are MediaWiki messages, grammar rules for them can be added fairly easily. If I can see where they are now, I could probably make a quite demo patch to show how it can be done. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-31 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‬ 2016-07-29 14:18 GMT+03:00 Thomas Douillard : > My two cents : this is a job to do in conjunction with structured > wiktionary, who will be able to deal with lexical entities. > Ideally, yes, but it will take us some time to get there. > We however have some

Re: [Wikidata] I'm calling it. We made it ;-)

2016-12-31 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Happy new year, this is perfect, made it indeed! בתאריך 31 בדצמ׳ 2016 12:59,‏ "Lydia Pintscher" כתב: > Folks, > > We're now officially mainstream ;-) > https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiehasty/song-ends-melody- > lingers-in-2016?utm_term=.nszJxrKqR#.sknE4nVAg > > >

[Wikidata] Fwd: Which templates should be global?

2017-06-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
-- From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> Date: 2017-06-28 9:32 GMT+03:00 Subject: Which templates should be global? To: wikimedia-l ‫‎<wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>‎‬ Hallo, TLDR: If you are an experienced editor on any Wikimedia project in any language, ple

Re: [Wikidata] Fwd: Which templates should be global?

2017-06-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
/www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6148868> > Template:Disambiguation 16 > wd:Q4844001 <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4844001> Template:Soft > redirect 16 > You can repeat this project for each of the wikigroups with more than one > project/edition (which you can find

Re: [Wikidata] Machine translation efforts for underserved languages

2018-06-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‬ 2018-06-18 2:12 GMT+03:00 Olya Irzak : > Dear Wikidata community, > > We're working on a project called Wikibabel to machine-translate parts of > Wikipedia into underserved languages, starting with Swahili. > > In hopes that some of our ideas can be helpful to machine translation > projects,

[Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Different countries have different processes for elections: registration of political parties and candidates, the form of the ballot, the system for counting the votes and dividing the seats in the legislature, etc. I was surprised not to find almost any data about electoral history for

[Wikidata] Wikidata and OpenStreetMap

2018-03-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, *** Before I begin: I've never been a major OpenStreetMap contributor, so forgive me if I misunderstand something basic about it. *** Lately, some work has been done on improving the integration of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Wikimedia projects, in the Kartographer extension. In particular, I'm

Re: [Wikidata] Running bots on Wikidata lexemes

2018-12-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'd also say that it would be a very good idea NOT TO RUN BOTS THAT ADD GRAMMATICAL FORMS. Wiktionaries in some languages have templates and modules that show things like verb conjugation and noun declension. If I'm allowed to fantasize, the ideal thing to do would be to have something like a

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Arabic dialects

2019-04-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'm really not sure that creating a project in an Arabic dialect requires the blessing of the Board. I'm not aware of any written document that makes Arabic varieties special with regard to approving a new project, since the same Language committee policies apply to it:

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata and Arabic dialects

2019-04-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Apr 2019 at 23:17, Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> I'm really not sure that creating a project in an Arabic dialect requires >> the blessing of the Board. I'm not aware of any written document that makes >> Arabic varieties special wit

Re: [Wikidata] "Wikidata item" link to be moved in the menu column on Wikimedia projects

2019-08-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Makes quite a lot of sense. Thank you! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 8 באוג׳ 2019 ב-12:48 מאת ‪Léa Lacroix‬‏ <‪ lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de‬‏>:‬ > Hello all, > >

Re: [Wikidata] "Wikidata item" link to be moved in the menu column on Wikimedia projects

2019-08-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 8 באוג׳ 2019 ב-13:17 מאת ‪Federico Leva (Nemo)‬‏ <‪ nemow...@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ > Nice! The "tools" section of the sidebar is an unrelated mess to avoid > (ah, from the task it looks like 2014 me agrees). > > The overall crowdedness of the sidebar has only got worse in the last > few

Re: [Wikidata] Language showcase, August 2020

2020-08-26 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Sorry, I am feeling very unwell today, and since I am the main presenter and host of this meeting, I have to reschedule for next week. My apologies for the late notice. I'll send another email with new details in a minute. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

[Wikidata] Language showcase, September 2, 2020

2020-08-26 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects. This next installment will deal with the Translatable modules project—a proposal to make a framework

[Wikidata] Language showcase, August 2020

2020-08-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects. This next installment will deal with the Translatable modules project—a proposal to make a framework

[Wikidata-l] i18n, l10n and m17n in Wikidata - lang and dir

2012-08-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, It's my first email on this list, so in case you don't know me: I am Amir, I'm from Israel, I'm a wikipedian since 2004, I write mostly in Hebrew and English, I care strongly about language issues in software in general and about right-to-left support in particular, and I work in the WMF's

Re: [Wikidata-l] thoughts about a plan for enabling interlanguage linking

2012-08-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/13 Snaevar snaevar-w...@gmx.com: For example: * The interwiki bots' will definitely have to be modified for the Wikidata age. Did anybody start a conversation with the operators of these bots? MerlIwBot is the only bot that is compatible with Wikidata. Is there any reason not to

Re: [Wikidata-l] i18n, l10n and m17n in Wikidata - lang and dir

2012-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday, where the title would be LTR, would be declared as RTL. Is there a way to avoid that? I guess the answer is no, but I wanted to ask. Cheers, Denny 2012/8/11 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: Hallo, It's my first email on this list, so in case

[Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, Preamble 1: This email probably falls under this FAQ question: Q: How will Wikidata change the way articles are edited? A: That’s part of what we have to figure out during the development, together with the community. Preamble 2: It's possible that there's an answer to this issue already,

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs: I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by introducing automatic transcription between languages and specifying what language the mayor's default name is in. If automatic transcription gets it wrong, it could still be

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs: On 14/08/12 08:57, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs: I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by introducing automatic transcription between languages and specifying what language

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/14 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de: In general I am a strong believer of let's start with the simple thing, which is to let editors add transliterations (that is why we have a label field for every entity in every language). I may see a use case for a transliteration-bot

[Wikidata-l] comparison articles

2012-09-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Geekiness warning: this email mentions software in general and free software licenses in particular. It mentions them because it's a useful example, but the ideas can be applied to many other domains. Automatic generation of list articles is frequently named as one of the main use cases of

[Wikidata-l] software version on the demo sites

2012-10-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I wanted to make sure that the English and the Hebrew demo sites have the same version. I can see the precise Git version of MediaWiki in Special:Version, as well as the versions of most extensions. But the versions of the Wikibase* extensions only appear as Version 0.2 alpha without the Git

[Wikidata-l] too easy to remove links

2012-10-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, An issue brought up in the discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew Wikipedia: To remove a link, you just click the remove link... and that's it. Looks too easy. No asking for confirmation or anything. Is it a good idea? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

Re: [Wikidata-l] too easy to remove links

2012-10-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
... In case it wasn't clear, I referred to removing a link to an article in foreign Wikipedia from an item page in the repository. 2012/10/5 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: Hi, An issue brought up in the discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew Wikipedia: To remove a link, you

Re: [Wikidata-l] update from the Hebrew Wikipedia

2012-10-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/10/12 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de: 2012/10/12 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 5. Somebody complained that it's too easy to remove a link from a repo - clicking the remove

Re: [Wikidata-l] update from the Hebrew Wikipedia

2012-10-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/10/12 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: Ok will add it to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions as soon as I can. Anyone want to link that page from the FAQ? I linked it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com

Re: [Wikidata-l] wikidata.org is live (with some caveats)

2012-10-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/10/30 emijrp emi...@gmail.com: Cool, nice work. SUL is not enabled? It is, we just discussed it on IRC :) Log out, then log in again to some other existing project (like https://ca.wikisource.org ) and then to https://www.wikidata.org , and it should work. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni ·

[Wikidata-l] deployment of fixes to RTL bugs

2012-12-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, There are a few RTL bugs that were already fixed in the Wikibase code a while ago, but don't seem to be deployed yet. In particular, these two are quite disruptive: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41005 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40247 What is the

[Wikidata-l] test client system that works with the live wikidata.org

2012-12-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Is there a test client system that works with the live wikidata.org? I'd love to test it as early as possible. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

Re: [Wikidata-l] deployed new code

2012-12-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Yay, all my right-to-left fixes are live :) Thank you! 2012/12/10 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: Heya :) Just a quick note that we deployed new code to wikidata.org. All changes can be found at

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 9

2013-01-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/1/10 Nicholas Michael Bashour nicholasbash...@gmail.com: Is there a way to make the names of languages appear in the language of the wiki on which they are displayed? For example, the language links now are in whatever that language is called in that specific language, but in the future,

[Wikidata-l] Interwiki bots - practical questions

2013-01-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Spin off from the Phase 1 thread. 2013/1/29 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: Why not just block the bots on wikis that use wikidata? This looks like the right thing to me, but I don't want to be too rude to the bot operators and I do want the bots to keep doing useful things. Imagine

Re: [Wikidata-l] getting some stats for the Hungarian Wikipedia

2013-01-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/1/29 Samat sama...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Samat sama...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with you. I am also waiting for somebody, who can change pywiki compatible with wikidata. I have

Re: [Wikidata-l] phase 1 live on the English Wikipedia

2013-02-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I prefer to make the API call and not to check by a list of languages. Several reasons: 1. It's more robust in general. 2. Wikibase extension, as well as pywikipedia, can be used on other wikis, too. 3. There are dark corners in Wikimedia wikis - non-standard codes, redirects, locked wikis,

Re: [Wikidata-l] A short hello

2013-07-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/7/16 Saskia Warzecha saskia.warze...@wikimedia.de: Hi, I'm Saskia and I wanted to introduce myself. I started yesterday as an intern at Wikidata in Berlin. I am currently finishing my studies in Computational Linguistics (B.Sc.) at the University of Potsdam and will commence a M.Sc. in

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #94

2014-01-25 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi Lydia, These updates are a lot like a blog. Can it be a real blog? WordPress should be fairly easy to set up :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014/1/25 Lydia Pintscher

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #94

2014-01-25 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014/1/25 John Lewis johnflewi...@gmail.com The point of posting here is purely to inform people who don't check MetaWiki or aren't subscribed to the talk page notifications. John On Saturday, 25 January 2014, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #94

2014-01-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I want an RSS feed, and the current RSS feed is pretty awful, because it shows a diff of wiki syntax. These updates look a lot like blog posts, so they should be blog posts. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to

Re: [Wikidata-l] multilingual terminology properties in Wikidata

2014-05-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, The integration of lexical content is not planned for some time yet. This is very much an issue that is lexical / lexicographic in nature. Thanks, GerardM On 9 May 2014 12:16, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Translators-l] Wikidata weekly newsletter translation

2014-06-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The only concern is that Wikidata is a single wiki and not all users on a given wiki will be concerned (except for adding interwiki links but technically ll is done on this subject). The rest is about data that will be used by tricky templates and whose readers would be more technical users

Re: [Wikidata-l] {{Universal infocard}} in ruwiki, and cross-wiki coordination

2014-08-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
the perspective during the last 2 years. Cheers, Micru On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2014-08-12 22:48 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 12 August 2014 14:00, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote

Re: [Wikidata-l] integration of VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-08-13 22:52 GMT+03:00 James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org: On 13 August 2014 20:27, Bene* benestar.wikime...@gmail.com wrote: Afaik the infoboxes won't have any parameters once they use Wikidata and be fully constructed using Lua. If I'm not correct I have to apologize but that's

Re: [Wikidata-l] new features and changes

2014-08-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'd like to join Luca - there are a lot of wonderful updates here. Ceterum censeo Vicidatam esse utenda :) ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata / Wikipedia integration : redlinks and items

2014-09-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
One other thing that I thought about it is to use it in ContentTranslation (a.k.a CX).[1] In ContentTranslation we have a link adaptation feature - if an article is available in the target language, it's automatically inserted as a link to the translation. In the current code, if the article

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata / Wikipedia integration : redlinks and items

2014-09-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-09-15 16:16 GMT+03:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: As for simply allowing sitelinks to non-existing articles in Wikidata: I fear we can't easily do that. If someone adds the link to a specific item and then another person comes and creates an article under the same name

[Wikidata-l] mapping template parameters using Wikidata?

2014-09-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, TL;DR: Did anybody consider using Wikidata items of Wikipedia templates to store multilingual template parameters mapping? Full explanation: As in many other projects in the Wikimedia world, templates are one of the biggest challenges in developing the ContentTranslation extension.

[Wikidata-l] extensions not on translatewiki.net

2014-09-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Several Wikidata-related extensions are not translatable on translatewiki.net. The ones I could find are: * Wikibase DataModel * Wikibase DataModel JavaScript * Wikidata build * WikimediaBadges * The various DataValues extensions All extensions need at least a translatable description for

[Wikidata-l] packaging and deployment time

2014-09-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, The following little change by myself was merged by Aude on September 9: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159070/ As far as I can see, it is not deployed to Wikipedia yet. It's not really urgent, but it made me curious: What is the deployment schedule for Wikidata extensions? -- Amir

Re: [Wikidata-l] packaging and deployment time

2014-09-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Cool, thanks for the pointer! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-09-27 14:47 GMT+03:00 Katie Filbert katie.filb...@wikimedia.de: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Amir E. Aharoni

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata descriptions in the beta iOS Wikipedia app

2014-11-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I haven't seen this mentioned in the context of Wikidata yet, so here: The latest beta version of the Wikipedia app for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) shows descriptions from Wikidata as summaries in the search results. If you have an iOS device and want to see it in action, see the instructions

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata descriptions in the beta iOS Wikipedia app

2014-11-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
, but I might be wrong. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-11-17 10:52 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Amir E. Aharoni, 15/11/2014 20:56: I haven't seen

[Wikidata-l] coordinates: Wikidata vs Wikipedias

2014-12-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, There's this bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35704 Basically, the Nearby function in the Wikipedia Android app can only work if the coordinates template in the Wikipedia in the relevant language uses the magic word from the GeoData extension. And I wonder: Is this really needed?

Re: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

2015-02-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'd rather see it not as something terribly disappointing, but as an opportunity to find a way to fill item descriptions more efficiently. Basically, to find some cycles to resolve https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64695 בתאריך 8 בפבר 2015 10:33, ‏Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com כתב:

[Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, TL;DR: How can a red link be annotated in a semantic way with a foreign article title or a Wikidata Q item number? Imagine: I'm writing a Wikipedia article in Russian. There's a red link in it. I don't have time to write the target article for that link now, but I'm sure that it should

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2015-02-11 22:14 GMT+02:00 Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org: Adding non-existing pages to Wikidata items? Using a syntax like [Q42[notexistingpagetitle]]? Is this a suggestion for possible syntax or something that actually works somewhere? But yeah, something like this - something

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
to write. Thanks, GerardM On 11 February 2015 at 20:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, TL;DR: How can a red link be annotated in a semantic way with a foreign article title or a Wikidata Q item number? Imagine: I'm writing a Wikipedia article in Russian

[Wikidata-l] interlanguage links not updated on the mobile site

2015-02-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
[ Crossposting to mobile and wikidata lists. Sorry about the inconvenience. You may want to use Reply to all. ] Hi, The articles about the musician Eviatar Banai in Hebrew and English Wikipedias exist fr years. On 2015-02-04 I created one in Catalan. Today I created one in Russian. If I look

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
implementationthoughts The advantage of a template is that it doesn't touch core and doesn't create new wiki syntax. Maybe this template could be a Lua module built into the Wikibase Client extension, so it wouldn't have to be lamely synchronized across hundreds of projects?

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, The obvious is painful. When you need a placeholder... Why not use Reasonator? It is just a call to the Wikidata item that is associated with the page. Thanks, Gerard On 12 February 2015 at 11:18, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote

Re: [Wikidata-l] annotating red links

2015-02-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88580 .) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-02-12 7:51 GMT+02:00 Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl: Hi Amir, Amir E. Aharoni schreef op 11-2

Re: [Wikidata-l] Impossible to add interwiki links

2015-01-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
This is probably not-entirely-useful, because it's just a complaint and not a fix, so apologies for that, but if I may... My dream solution for some of those issues with integration of Wikipedia and Wikidata is letting people edit Wikidata without leaving Wikipedia (or Wikivoyage, or whatever).

Re: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

2015-02-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
at 14:07, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il mailto:amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I'd rather see it not as something terribly disappointing, but as an opportunity to find a way to fill item descriptions more efficiently. Basically, to find

[Wikidata-l] making otherProjectsLinksByDefault non-beta

2015-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, The Other projects sidebar beta feature is already on by default in some projects, such as the Italian Wikipedia and the French Wikipedia. Search for otherProjectsLinksByDefault in http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Is there any reason not to make it it

[Wikidata-l] OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

2015-03-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, [ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ] I was throwing around ideas with a friend about how OpenStreetMap could be integrated with Wikidata. The thing that I care the most in any software is internationalization. Having a map in which all labels of towns,

Re: [Wikidata-l] mapping template parameters using Wikidata?

2015-03-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-03-03 20:39 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de: Am 03.03.2015 um 18:48 schrieb Amir E. Aharoni: Trying again... It's a really important topic for me. How do I go about proposing storing information about

Re: [Wikidata-l] mapping template parameters using Wikidata?

2015-03-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Maybe we should store these internationalised templates here on wikidata? That's precisely what my opening post is about :) I need help from people who understand Wikidata (and possible dbpedia) better than I do to figure out the details of getting it done. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר

Re: [Wikidata-l] mapping template parameters using Wikidata?

2015-03-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Name would be a bit tricky since I'm not sure if we have property called name At this stage it's not actually important for me for the purposes of ContentTranslation to map it to a Wikidata property. Any mapping between parameter names in different languages would be enough. One possibility is

Re: [Wikidata-l] mapping template parameters using Wikidata?

2015-03-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
to Wikidata 2) contributions in the infobox mappings to cover more infoboxes for better coverage Best, Dimitris [1] http://downloads.dbpedia.org/3.9/en/template_parameters_en.ttl.bz2 [2] dbpedia.org/gsoc2015/ideas On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il

Re: [Wikidata-l] mapping template parameters using Wikidata?

2015-03-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
moving this forward would be very welcome. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-09-24 14:18 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: Hi, TL;DR: Did anybody